My plan:
1. Go back in time and retrieve DNA samples from the most controversial figures in history (such as Che, Karl Marx, Muhammad, etc.)
2. Return to present time and get DNA from controversial figures who are still alive (like Bush), as well as a sample from an annoying 11-year-old.
3. Create a clone mixing all of the DNA samples together.
4. Unleash creation upon the world. It's name shall be James Russler.

>implying you don't go back in time and inform Marx of some modifcations made to Marxist theory, and begin to discuss other potential modifications to perfect the theory
>implying you don't go back and prevent Stalin from making the mistakes he made or ensure he never becomes general secretary
>implying you don't go back and ensure communist revolution is successful in Germany
>implying you don't go back and tell Mao to modify his policies prevent unintended deaths
>implying you don't go back to prevent Deng taking control

Mao said multiple times that he wouldn't give a shit if a majority of the world's population were wiped out in a nuclear war. Here's one such quote:

"I’m not afraid of nuclear war. There are 2.7 billion people in the world; it doesn’t matter if some are killed. China has a population of 600 million; even if half of them are killed, there are still 300 million people left. I’m not afraid of anyone."

Apparently this one was actually aired on Chinese TV, so it wasn't exactly a private sentiment.

He regretted the Great Leap's failure because it was his prized policy, not because those lives meant something to him.

Mao said this one at the Moscow Conference in 1957:
the Soviets shouldn't be afraid of nuclear war because "The whole world has 2 billion 700 million people, possibly it will lose a third; or even more, possibly it will lose half … but there will be another half, the imperialists will be hit completely, [and] the whole world will become socialist."

No, the guy was serious. That was actually his stance on nuclear war. At the Moscow Conference he was criticizing Khrushchev's conciliatory policy with the West when he said that. Mao believed violence was the only way to go about the revolution ("a revolution is not a dinner party") and that the "Western imperialists" could not be negotiated with. Meanwhile the Soviets were concerned with not getting nuked to oblivion, which to Mao was apparently a sign that they lacked ideological commitment.

Any drastic changes to history could very well result in me not being born at all. On top of that, I don't have the political savvy and speaking skills to successfully change any of that for the better. To attempt to interfere could get me killed or fuck things up even worse than they were previously.